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the stricken monarch of the lifeless forest. The silence and 
desolation of the whole scene brought most forcibly to my 
mind the description of a plague-smitten city: it was an 
analogy in the vegetable world to Petra, Idumeea and Baby- 
lon, as they now appear. 
l have dwelt more at length on the effects of the great 
frost of 1837, as it proves at once how much hardier this 
species is, which, though growing at a much higher elevation, 
and on a marshy plain, where the effects of frost are always 
the most severely felt, was almost uninjured. It is further 
peculiar in never inhabiting analogous altitudes on the 
mountains of other parts of the colony. It appears emi- 
nently a gregarious species, capable of enduring the rigorous 
climates, the sharp frosts and heavy rains of the table-lands, 
but not the rude blasts and cutting winds of the mountain 
tops. 
_ In describing this species, perhaps the most interesting of 
an immense genus, which forms four-fifths of the forests of 
Terra Australis,* I am anxious that it should bear the name 
of R. C. Gunn, Esq., a gentleman whose name willever be 
known as the great promoter of all branches of natural 
science in Tasmania, and to whose kind aid and experience I 
am indebted for much that I know of the Botany of that 
colony. 
Evcauyprus Gunni, Hook. fil. ; ramulis junioribus flori- 
busque glaucis, folis alternis petiolatis lanceolatis v. el- 
liptico seu oblongo-lanceolatis rarius ovato-oblongis magis 
minusve acutis acuminatis v. mucronatis utrinque opacis 
venis obscuris, petiolis folio subquadruplo brevioribus, pe- 
dunculis solitariis axillaribus teretibus trifloris petiolo 
sub brevioribus, cupulis turbinatis breviter pedicellatis pe- 
duneuli longitudine, operculis hemisphericis cupule di- 
midii longitudine sed latioribus, mucrone valido basi 
terminatis, fructibus latioribus elliptico-turbinatis ore 
paulo contracto valvis 3-4 interdum porrectis, —— 
Has, On the elevated table lands of the interior of Tas- 
.* Brown, in Botany of Flinders’ Voyage, 11. 547. 
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